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Five
Corners
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Starring:
Jodie
Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff, John Turturro, Elizabeth
Berridge
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| Released:
1988
Rated:
R |
| Synopsis:
Scripted
by MOONSTRUCK's Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Shanley,
FIVE CORNERS is an arresting but flawed melange of comedy and
melodrama. Set in the all-white working-class Bronx neighborhood
of the title in 1964, the film traces several parallel stories,
revolving chiefly around petstore employee Foster; her bartender
boyfriend, Graff; the psychopathic Turturro, who tried to rape
Foster 18 months earlier and has just been freed from prison;
and Robbins, Foster's protector turned pacifist. Undeniably
stamped with the signature of the "Bard of the Bronx," FIVE
CORNERS is full of Shanley's rich dialog and careful observations,
but its radical tone shifts are what most distinguish the film.
Moving frequently from moments of carefree levity to high tension,
brooding melodrama, and brutal violence. |
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